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> Placing moral or ethical judgement on an entire group based on the actions of a few is the most violent form of communication

Ethically wrong? Sure, I can go there.

The most violent form of communication? In light of what Hamas just did, that seems like an absurd statement.

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I respect what you are saying. I just believe that moral posturing as a pretense for more death of innocents is a compounding effect that is always greater than the initial sin. It would be much more honest just to say “well here comes the boom MFers” (which seems to be the posture of Israeli govt). Now if that same moral posturing was pretense for greater compassion or reconciliation (eg OMG we have come to this, something must change), then that would be ideal. But I think most like OP, especially those affected by the actions of Hamas (I include myself in that camp) would find responding with compassion to be absurd. Yet I believe the long tail of events will reveal these horrible actions to be yet another flashpoint, precisely because the shock of perpetual violence jumps from one tragedy to the next.

Yeah.

As I said in a previous post, if there's ever going to be peace, some of those who have killed in the past are going to have to go unpunished, and some of those who have died in the past are going to have to go unavenged. You're going to have to sell that to at least one side, and probably both. That's the only way out of the cycle of violence.

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